The Eternal Pursuit Of The Happy Ending Poem by Raj Dronamraju

The female form vanished into the bushes
Down the fantasy hole for an unrealistic soft landing
No one carried me, I dropped hard every time
Down the rabbit hole of pre-sold fantasy

Your time share view of where a life should lead
To me is a fairy story as fantastic as fire breathing dragons flying down the interstate

Dead decades nibble around the edges of unreasonable goals
They show us days we shared the same teabag for our morning tea for lack of money
But we still refused a place at the caterpillar's table
Not clouded by unreasonable romantic good fortune

I looked past what was going on right now, good or bad, at unearned storylines
Their gumdrop karma rots the happy ending away
Like an old photograph set on fire
The feet that stamp out the flames choose to run into a suffering free vacuum